I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.

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Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that.

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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.

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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

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So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided.

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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.

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